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    <![CDATA[Salvador]]>
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    <![CDATA[In 1982, Didion traveled to El Salvador at the height of the ghastly civil war. From battlefields to body dumps, she trained a merciless eye not only on the terror but also on the depredations and evasions of our own country's foreign policy.]]>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a Joan Didion fan, primarily because of the way she uses language. She creates breezy, yet complex sentences that are not at all pretty in their depiction of the oddness of reality. And she uses repetition in a way that drives home what she wants to say, rather than in a way that irritates, as i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69144566">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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